Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] more than double " in BNC.

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1 Devenish is to spend up to £180million to more than double its pub chain .
2 Meanwhile , Barclays has announced plans to more than double its network of wipe-through machines .
3 The Roads Minister , Kenneth Carlisle , defended the decision to more than double the costs of the road by citing " the beauty and sensitivity of the countryside " .
4 Max Pechstein 's painting ‘ Sunset ’ of 1929 provided a surprise success , selling to the USA for more than double its estimate at DM440,000 ( £176,000 ; $281,600 ) .
5 Two hydrocyclone separators are to be installed on the Gyda platform next year to more than double the installation 's water handling capacity to 35,000 barrels a day in readiness for an anticipated increase in produced water from the reservoir .
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